Rob Slaughter
@RobCSlaughter
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CEO & founder Defense Unicorns 🦄 @usairforce dropout
Joined January 2022
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We are officially a UNICORN!! Announcing our $136M Series B raise. $1B+ valuation. Led by Bain Capital Tech Opportunities. Read the full release 🔗 https://t.co/tLMwbbJnmx
@BadCodeOnly @RobCSlaughter @andrewg_xyz
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The can’t upgrade the hardware because I can’t update the software doom spiral 🌀 is real
John: @ssankar told this amazing anecdote about the early days of Palantir. They built a piece of software. He goes to deliver it, and the machine that they tried to install it on had like 1MB of RAM or something, and so it just couldn't run the software. @DefenseUnicorns CEO
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🚨 BIG NEWS INCOMING 🚨 Catch @RobCSlaughter, CEO of @DefenseUnicorns, live today at 4:30 PM EST on @TBPN with hosts @jordihays & @johncoogan. We’re making a major announcement! Tune in: https://t.co/YgiV3IBhdE
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My CTOs so cracked he’d have refused to leave in the first place. Guess I don’t get it 🤷♂️ @BadCodeOnly
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You’re a series A startup and Mark Zuckerberg just stole one of your AI researchers, does this mean your valuation just went up or just went down? 🤔 🧐
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Just a reminder on why nuclear weapons will forever drive national politics. The GBU-57, the “bunker buster” that was used operationally for the first time to target Iran’s nuclear sites, has a 5,300 pound explosive charge. That’s the equivalent of about 2 metric tons of TNT
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4 kids. Newborn in year 3 of startup life. The point of a startup is to build amazing things for the world 🌎 The point of a having kids is to ensure that the next generation also has humans that exist that continue to push for this evolution of humanity. It is two sides of
Vehemently disagree Having kids is very hard, and starting companies is very hard. Yes it forces tough prioritization and tradeoffs, but that's life. I'm a better leader after kids, and I'm a better Father after starting Anduril. Lean in, just do it!
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Had an awesome time at Manifest Demo Day with some of my 500 closest Defense Tech friends. Shoutout to @lk_bell and @MikeSlagh This is how we win!!!
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I feel like everything going on with the Government and the VC world 🌎 right now is like some crazy crossover episode. Major Flintstones meet the Jetsons vibes 🍿 🍿 🍿
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No one should have to die for speaking the truth on this platform 🦄 😂
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Was that a Chinese Fighter? Thought it was 🇺🇸 with a new stealth paint color 🤷♂️
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All I want for Christmas 🎄 is…. 1988 and still so relevant
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Mind is blown 🤯
Jeff McCoy (@BadCodeOnly) is CTO of @DefenseUnicorns which is innovating national security. What is Jeff’s best interview question? Learn this and other insights in our interview by @MarcoDeMeireles. Read it here: https://t.co/mu5zGIjkww
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Requirements were broken at the requirements level How the DoD makes “requirements” is broken and any major acquisition will have the same issues when you dive in.
The F-35 design was broken at the requirements level, because it was required to be too many things to too many people. This made it an expensive & complex jack of all trades, master of none. Success was never in the set of possible outcomes. And manned fighter jets are
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Episode 42 of The Kubelist Podcast (@readkubelist) is live! Tune in as Wayne Starr of @DefenseUnicorns shares the story behind Zarf and how it's enabling continuous software delivery in air-gapped environments. https://t.co/RddohqDLGl
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Our faces when we heard that our #opensource project, Zarf, was featured in the 30th edition of @thoughtworks Technology Radar... Read it here: https://t.co/Q4e8aSdxZh
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Last week we announced Ansa's second AI-adjacent investment of 2024, @DefenseUnicorns. A belief underpinning this new investment is our POV that 'model-centric AI,' which has dominated the early stages of AI development and seen amazing progress over the years, has true
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